Ebisu Station (Tokyo)

Ebisu Station 恵比寿駅
Statue outside Ebisu station
Location	Shibuya, Tokyo Japan
Coordinates	35°38′48″N 139°42′36″E / 35.646643°N 139.710045°E / 35.646643; 139.710045Coordinates: 35°38′48″N 139°42′36″E / 35.646643°N 139.710045°E / 35.646643; 139.710045
Operated by	JR East Tokyo Metro

Ebisu Station (恵比寿駅, Ebisu-eki) is a railway station in the Ebisu neighborhood of Tokyo's Shibuya ward, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro. The station is named after Yebisu Beer, which was once brewed in an adjacent brewery, and which is itself named for the Japanese deity Ebisu.

Lines[]

Ebisu is served by the following lines:

• East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
  • Yamanote Line
  • Saikyō Line
  • Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
• Tokyo Metro
  • Hibiya Line

JR East station[]

EBSJA09JS18JY21 Ebisu Station 恵比寿駅
JR East station
JR station entrance in May 2016
Location	1 Ebisu Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	JA Saikyo Line JS Shonan-Shinjuku Line JY Yamanote Line
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
History
Opened	1906
Passengers
FY2019	145,805 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Meguro JY22 Next counter-clockwise Yamanote Line Shibuya SBYJY20 Next clockwise Ōsaki OSKJS17 towards Zushi Shōnan–Shinjuku Line   Rapid   Local Shibuya SBYJS19 towards Utsunomiya Ōsaki OSKJA08 Terminus Saikyō Line   Commuter Rapid   Rapid   Local Shibuya SBYJA10 towards Ōmiya

Platforms[]

The JR East station consists of two island platforms serving four tracks.

1	JY Yamanote Line	for Shibuya, Shinjuku, and Ikebukuro
2	JY Yamanote Line	for Shinagawa, Tokyo, and Ueno
3	JA Saikyo Line	for Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Ōmiya
	JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line	for Ōmiya, Utsunomiya, and Takasaki
4	JA Saikyō Line	for Ōsaki R Rinkai Line for Shin-Kiba Sotetsu Line for Hazawa yokohama-kokudai and Ebina
	JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line	for Yokohama, Ōfuna,Odawara, and Zushi

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  Platforms 1 and 2

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  Platforms 3 and 4

Station melody[]

The melody known as "The Third Man Theme" (or as the "Ebisu Theme" in Japan) is played at the platforms just prior to train departures.^[1] This melody was used in Ebisu beer TV commercials. Most of the many of thousands of people who pass through the station each day probably do not realize that the song was made famous by the 1949 Orson Welles film noir, The Third Man, written by Graham Greene and featuring a very dark subject matter, the sale of fake penicillin in post-World War Vienna. The song, played on the zither by the previously unknown Austrian musician, Anton Karas, was a huge international hit in 1949 and 1950.

Tokyo Metro station[]

H02 Ebisu Station 恵比寿駅
Tokyo Metro station
Hibiya Line platforms in 2019
Location	1-5-5 Ebisu Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	Tokyo Metro
Line(s)	H Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	H-02
History
Opened	1964
Passengers
FY2019	117,796 daily
Services
Preceding station Tokyo Metro Following station Terminus TH Liner Hiroo H03 One-way operation Naka-meguro H01 Terminus Hibiya Line Hiroo H03 towards Kita-Senju

Platforms[]

The subway station has two side platforms serving two tracks.

1	H Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line	for Naka-Meguro
2	H Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line	for Roppongi, Ginza, Ueno, and Kita-senju TS Tobu Skytree Line for Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen TN Tobu Nikko Line for Minami-Kurihashi

History[]

The station first opened in 1901 as a freight terminal for the neighboring Yebisu Beer factory. Passenger trains began to stop at the station on 30 September 1906.^[2] The Tokyo Tamagawa tram line was extended to the station in 1927. In May 1945, the station building burned to the ground amid the bombing of Tokyo. The subway station opened on 25 March 1964^[3] and the tram service was discontinued in 1967.

The Sapporo Brewery at Ebisu and its accompanying rail freight terminal were closed in 1982. The space was used for a "car train" service for several years before being redeveloped as the Ebisu Garden Place high-rise complex.

The Saikyo Line was extended to Ebisu in 1996. Through service to the Shonan-Shinjuku Line began in 2001, and to the Rinkai Line in 2002. Between 1996 and 2002, Ebisu served as the southern passenger terminus of the Saikyo Line, with Osaki Station being used as a turnaround point but not having passenger platforms connected to the line.

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  Old TRTA logo above station entrance, March 2004

Chest-height platform edge doors were introduced on the two Yamanote Line platforms from 26 June 2010, the first time that such doors were installed on a JR line other than the Shinkansen.^[4][5]

Passenger statistics[]

In fiscal 2019, the JR East station was used by 145,805 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 20th-busiest station operated by JR East.^[6] In fiscal 2019, the Tokyo Metro station was used by an average of 117,796 passengers per day (exiting and entering passengers), making it the 30th-busiest station operated by Tokyo Metro.^[7]

The daily passenger figures for each operator in previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	JR East	Tokyo Metro
1999	129,081[8]
2000	127,967[9]
2005	131,507[10]
2010	130,245[11]
2011	128,555[12]
2012	130,241[13]	98,217[14]
2013	133,553[15]	104,738[16]
2014	135,493[17]	107,471 [18]
2015	139,882[19]	111,149[20]
2016	143,898[21]	115,726[22]
2017	145,319[23]	118,260[24]
2018	147,699[25]	119,939[26]
2019	145,805[6]	117,796[7]

• Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.

See also[]

• List of railway stations in Japan

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ebisu Station (Tokyo).

• JR East Ebisu Station information (in English)
• JR East Ebisu Station information (in Japanese)
• Tokyo Metro Ebisu Station information (in English)
• Tokyo Metro Ebisu Station information (in Japanese)